Lonely Planet

Hello, is it LP you’re looking for?

Travel is in the DNA of everyone at Lonelyplanet.com. Call us crazy, but we live travel, breathe travel, heck we even dream about it sometimes. It’s our mission to inspire, inform and connect travellers so we’re building the biggest and best travel site on the planet. Do you want to help drive the direction of Lonelyplanet.com as part of a talented, passionate team? Are you raring to work somewhere fast-paced and fun? We want to hear from you.

We're pretty chilled out

At Lonely Planet we:

support a healthy work-life balance

provide flexible working arrangements

work as a unified team across Design, Development, Product, Operations and other broader groups of very talented people

are pretty relaxed about most things (everyone now and then someone even swears, you have been duly warned)

don’t really care what you wear (so long as you are clothed)

are obsessed with table tennis (not all of us).

Lonely Planet currently has development teams in London and Melbourne and we’re growing a team in Nashville. We are looking for people with a variety of skills and experience.

Our tech

We’re big believers in ‘right tool for the right job’ and encourage engineers to try new technology. But just to give you a taste, this is some of the technology we’re currently big fans of:

Ruby and Ruby on Rails

Sass, Haml, Coffescript

iOS and Android

AWS, Chef

Ubuntu, PostGres.

We love open source development and encourage developers to open source their work or contribute to open source projects. This is a little of what we’ve been up to:

our engineering blog: http://engineering.lonelyplanet.com

our GitHub repo: https://github.com/lonelyplanet.

We challenge Engineers to be involved in the product, not just the code. In weekly planning sessions, Engineers bring product and technology ideas and work together with a Product Manager to set priorities and goals for the week.

TTD is an absolute must for us. There are no manual steps between a developer committing to master so we rely on automated tests catching bugs (not that anyone ever commits bugs into master, of course!).

Across LP we’re working with large amounts of content from our amazing authors and a growing number of other sources so we can continue to deliver rich, up to date content to travellers through a variety of products and platforms.

Lonely Planet has always been at the forefront of travel in the digital world launching lonelyplanet.com in 1995 and travel guides for Palm Pilot in 1999 and iOS apps a decade later. That passion continues today with teams in London and Nashville continually innovating and improving the experience for travellers visiting our website. We’re entering an exciting new era of Lonely Planet on mobile, being led from our Nashville office.